Gareth Chantler
Gareth Chantler is a freelance Canadian writer based in Gaziantep, Turkey. His website, www.storiesfromsyria.com, focuses on Syrians telling their own stories in their own words.
Foreign Powers and the Syrian Calculus: a Conversation with Bente Scheller
16 August 2018
Whoever thinks reconstruction could be used as an incentive for the regime to become less brutal or to allow for the return of refugees; whoever believes it would be possible...
Diana Darke's "The Merchant of Syria: A History of Survival"
02 July 2018
Diana Darke delivers The Merchant of Syria four years after her My House in Damascus established itself in rare company, essential reading on Syria written by a foreigner. Intimate settings,...
Samar Yazbek’s Syrian Voices a Contribution to History
25 December 2017
Readers begin to appreciate what, and how much, they do not know. If this is Yazbek’s work between just March and July of 2011, how many bookshelves could the Syrian...
How Khalifa’s ‘The Shell’ Informed Political Awakening in Syria
21 November 2017
Before the revolution, Khalifa sometimes had regrets about writing 'The Shell'. But since then, “the revolution has obligated the regime to show off all the barbarism, without restriction, in front...
